Training an object detector in the AWS SageMaker cloud platform

AWS (https://aws.amazon.com) is the Amazon cloud platform used to perform a wide variety of tasks in the cloud. AWS SageMaker is the machine learning platform used to train and deploy models using the AWS interactive platform. AWS SageMaker interacts with AWS S3 buckets to store and retrieve data. The step-by-step process of training an object detector is described in the following section.

Setting up an AWS account, billing, and limits

Increase the service limit to ml.p3.2xlarge or something similar by contacting AWS Support. Note that it may take up to two business days for the instance type to get approved, so plan accordingly. If this is not done, then you...